The chaplain looked from one to the other of the two men with rising doubt and hysteria.

’Oh, my God!’ he wailed, and all his practical composure went up in hysteria.

The dog whimpered and squealed in brute, dumbfounded hysteria at the end of an old Manila rope and groveled and crawled on its belly without resisting, but the man beat it and beat it anyway with his heavy, flat stick.